Uhniv[a] is a city in Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine.

województwo) under Polish rule - this district included the town that was later called Hivniv.

In 1548-9 the Tatars invaded; from 1648 to 1655 the area suffered from the Cossack uprising under Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of the Zaporozhian who joined forces with the Tartars against Poland.

From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town (named UHNOW) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), in the Rawa ruska (Rava-Ruska) district, in Austrian Galicia province (Crown land).

Stepan Onyshkevych, a Deputy in the Imperial Council of Austria, member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance, and friend of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Ivan Franko, was born here in 1861.

After World War II, along with the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, the Soviet Union took control of the area.

But thanks to famous rabbis who are mentioned in various sources because of their importance, it is clear that a Jewish community existed there for at least 350 years and even had a rabbinical court and Judge.

Rabbi Shmuel Feivish, son of Rabbi Nathan Feitel, wrote in 1658, in his description of the Khmelnytsky massacres called Tit ha-Yaven: "From there the enemy went to Magerov where there were about 100 families who escaped to Narol (mentioned before).

As a result of our many sins, a terrible decree was issued and more than 10,000 people were killed, including woman and children.

After calm restored, they came out of hiding, built new homes, and lived there until World War II.